[INFO] temp to live domain

[johnlewisdesign]

Hi guys

 

I just locked myself out of my shop's backoffice trying to move from a temporary hosting domain name to a live one. It was installed on shared hosting, and the shop was installed using a 1 click installer. I installed to (lets call it) http://11.23.456.78/myshopdomain.co.uk/shop/

 

I just fixed it, and having searched the web for the solution, I couldn't find one.

 

So, I thought I'd d the decent thing and post my solution so nobody else got stuck like me.

 

My change was moving from a subfolder to root, and temp name to live.

 

http://11.23.456.78/myshopdomain.co.uk/shop/ needed to be http://www.mylivedomain.co.uk/

 

The front end was working, but backoffice was locked out. It kept redirecting me to /admin/login.php?redirect=index.php

 

In config/settings.ing.php was the temp domain name, /11.23.456.78/myshopdomain.co.uk/

 

I replaced this with /mylivedomain.co.uk/

 

That was the wrong move.

 

I started with renaming .htaccess in case this was at fault. It didn't make any difference, but it isn't a bad idea to do so.

 

What you need to do primarily is go to config/settings.inc.php and replace with a / (and only a slash, nothing more, nothing less)!

 

This setting is in the line

 

define('__PS_BASE_URI__', '11.23.456.78/myshopdomain.co.uk/shop/');

 

Just change it to

 

define('__PS_BASE_URI__', '/');

 

 

Instantaneously you regain access to your backoffice, and are prompted to change URLs, turn on SEF URLs and recreate the .htaccess - voila, you are back in the room!

 

I hope this helps someone avoid a situation like mine. I almost missed my deadline because of it, so felt it was important to post back my solution.

 

All the best,

 

John